While not as well known
as some of the German "magic realists" the Dutch painter Pyke Koch made
some
very odd and compelling images. When travelling through Europe
in 1984 I made a sketch of
Pyke Koch's painting of a chimney sweep (the only 20th century
painting that I bothered to sketch
on that trip). A few years later when I found a reproduction of
this painting in a book I was taken
by how similar the work I was doing was to this painting.